Two thirds of Kickstarter games failed in 2012

Time to get mathematical! Kickstarter took off in 2012, as thousands of games were pitched in order to get a slice of that sweet crowdsourcing pie. While Double Fine and a few others were big success stories, plenty of smaller games also managed to garner enough pledges to see dreams become reality.

According to Kickstarter, 2796 games were launched on their platform (Including tabletop games), a total number of which 911 were successful. Technically, that’s a success rate of only 32.58%, or more than two thirds of failure right there.

Of those games, a total of $83, 144, 565 was pledged. That makes gaming the second most popular category on Kickstarter, behind art.

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